Big Brother appears to be coming to Scotland with a state sponsored Guardian of all of the children in Scotland. Peeking through the keyholes of families to make sure that the states children are eating properly, going to bed on time and behaving correctly according to the state standards. It is surveillance of Scottish Families that is supported and endorsed by Scottish National Party (SNP).
Scottish children don't need these government spies
The Guardian
The SNP's proposal to allow state guardians to be named for every child in Scotland is interfering and unhelpful
The SNP's disturbing, seven-year obsession with looking through the nation's keyholes to ensure we are all behaving, sitting straight, eating properly and getting to bed early continues. It is surely only a matter of time before the Scottish government's children's minister, Aileen Campbell, is invited to North Korea to make a presentation on how her party has managed to secure such coast-to-coast state surveillance of families without any bad publicity.
Last Wednesday night, the government effectively paved the way for official surveillance of family life by allowing for state guardians to be appointed for every child in Scotland. The move is part of the SNP's otherwise sound and thoughtful children and young people bill, which also guarantees free school meals for children in primary year one to three and a significant increase in nursery provision. This interventionist, hand-wringing party of state busybodies simply cannot help itself, though, and they ruined the tenor of the legislation with their state guardians.
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2014-02-22 The Guardian - Scottish children don't need these government spies
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